"His mercies never come to an end" Lamentations 3:22

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Daily homily thoughts, 11/6

Today, Jesus tells us: don’t give me your excuse as to why you can’t come to Sunday Mass. No excuse works, not unless you’re so sick or infirm you can’t make it. there is no excuse. So many people find so many excuses — sports, shopping, fatigue, traveling, not feelin it, work, etc etc etc. Sorry. Not a single one of those excuses works. Can you imagine the sorrow of Jesus–who throws a banquet that cost him his life–but everyone has something better to do. Here’s Jesus:

One of those at table with Jesus said to him,
“Blessed is the one who will dine in the Kingdom of God.”
He replied to him,
“A man gave a great dinner to which he invited many.
When the time for the dinner came,
he dispatched his servant to say to those invited,
‘Come, everything is now ready.’
But one by one, they all began to excuse themselves.
The first said to him,
‘I have purchased a field and must go to examine it;
I ask you, consider me excused.’
And another said, ‘I have purchased five yoke of oxen
and am on my way to evaluate them;
I ask you, consider me excused.’
And another said, ‘I have just married a woman,
and therefore I cannot come.’
The servant went and reported this to his master.
Then the master of the house in a rage commanded his servant,
‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town
and bring in here the poor and the crippled, the blind and the lame.’
The servant reported, ‘Sir, your orders have been carried out
and still there is room.’
The master then ordered the servant,
‘Go out to the highways and hedgerows
and make people come in that my home may be filled.
For, I tell you, none of those men who were invited will taste my dinner.'”